The Art of Authenticity : Tools to Become an Authentic Leader and Your Best Self

Leverage Your Authentic Self Into A Valuable Leadership Strategy The Art Of Authenticity Is A Guide To Becoming A Better Leader By Achieving Your Best Self. All People Bring Different Sides Of Themselves To Various Situations. This Book Will Show You How To Broaden And Deepen Your Effectiveness By Presenting The Most Appropriate Side Of Yourself. Dr. Karissa Thacker Is The Management Psychologist Called On By Over Two Hundred Fortune 500 Companies To Work With High Potential Leaders. This Book Provides You With Her Expert Guidance, Based On Validated Psychological Research And Artful Application Of Psychological Principles To Actual Business Situations, To Help You Become An Authentic Leader. You'll Learn How To Lead Through Reflection, Action, And Conscious Choice, And How To Maintain Your Guiding Principles While Effectively Leading Your Team. By Replacing Habitual Reactions With Authentic Ones, You'll Find That You're Modeling Good Behavior And Effective Decision-making--and That Authenticity Is Contagious. This Guide Equips You With The Tools And Skills You Need To Be The Catalyst Of Positive Change Your Organization Needs. How Do You Remain Authentic While Being An Effective Leader? This Book Argues That The Question Isn't A Duality. Authenticity Is The Best Way To Lead, And The Only Way To Maintain Sustainable Success As An Organization. This Insightful Guide Shows You How To Find Your Authentic Self, And Leverage That Into An Effective, Executable Leadership Strategy. Become Authentic In A Way That Befits Your Values Show Loyalty, Honesty, Ethics, And Consideration Maintain Authenticity In Leadership Roles Make Conscious Choices Instead Of Blind Reactions Some Are Born To Lead, Other Must Be Taught, But All Leaders Must Work To Retain Their Own Values And Basic Sense Of Self. A Simple Pause Can Mean The Difference Between A Knee-jerk Reaction And An Authentic Decision, And The Effects Ripple Throughout Your Organization. The Art Of Authenticity Is Your Guidebook To Finding The True Authentic Leader Within, And Leading From The Inside Out For The Long Haul. --,the Art Of Authenticity Is An In-depth Leadership Development Guidebook, Designed To Help Its Readers Become The Very Best Versions Of Themselves By Replacing Habitual Reactions With Authentic Ones. It Answers The Most Asked Questions On Authentic Leadership: What Can I Do To Become Genuinely Authentic In A Way That Befits My Personal Values? How Can I Be An Honest, Loyal, Ethical, Considerate Person Yet Still Lead A Team Or Organization ... And Maintain Authenticity? Based In Validated Psychological Research, The Art Of Authenticity Will Equip Its Readers With Practical Real World Tools To Become A More Authentic Leader Over Time Via Reflection, Action, And Conscious Choice-- Leverage your authentic self into a valuable leadership strategy The Art of Authenticity is a guide to becoming a better leader by achieving your best self. All people bring different sides of themselves to various situations. This book will show you how to broaden and deepen your effectiveness by presenting the most appropriate side of yourself. Dr. Karissa Thacker is the management psychologist called on by over two hundred Fortune 500 companies to work with high potential leaders. This book provides you with her expert guidance, based on validated psychological research and artful application of psychological principles to actual business situations, to help you become an authentic leader. You'll learn how to lead through reflection, action, and conscious choice, and how to maintain your guiding principles while effectively leading your team. By replacing habitual reactions with authentic ones, you'll find that you're modeling good behavior and effective... Title Page 5 Copyright 6 Dedication 7 Preface 8 Part I: A New Vision of Authenticity 12 Chapter 1: The Digital Era of Freedom and Fear 13 The Call to Authenticity 13 On Becoming More Authentic 14 The Particular Challenges of Now and How Did We Get Here? 16 The Dawn of the Digital Age 18 Digital Era = Fear + Freedom 20 Responding to the Challenges of Freedom and Fear 21 The Workouts 22 Chapter 2: Signature Contributions vs. Conformity 25 Celebrate Your Quirks 26 The More Experiments the Better 28 The Upside of Your Weaknesses 30 Meaning Matters 32 The Workouts 35 Chapter 3: Truth, Lies, and Authenticity 37 Seeing the Multiple Choice Questions 37 Killing the Dead Bug View of Truth 38 Big Fat Whoppers and Sweet Little Lies 42 The Truth About Authenticity 45 The Workouts 46 Part II: The Science of Authenticity 48 Chapter 4: Followers Beware...of Charisma 49 The Perceived Power of Charisma 50 Two Flavors of Charisma 51 Conversations That Matter 54 The Authenticity Continuum 60 The Workouts 61 Chapter 5: Self-Awareness or is it Selves Awareness? 63 Selves Awareness and the Case of the Bossy CFO 64 Are You a Chameleon? 66 Fixed Traits, Free Traits, and Real People 68 The Ideal Self, the Current Self, and Lots in Between 70 The Workouts 72 Chapter 6: Balanced Processing and Collaborative Decision Making 74 What Is Balanced Processing? 74 Get in Balanced Processing Gear or Not 76 Three Tricky Words for Leaders 78 Hire a Brilliant Antagonist or Three 79 Know and Own All Your Biases 81 Have a Big Ego and Put It on the Shelf 84 The Workouts 85 Chapter 7: Relational Transparency and Honest Conversations 87 The Value of Honest Conversation 88 Transparency That Creates Business Results 89 Emotional Transparency Matters, Too 90 The Myth of Total Transparency 92 The Age of Transparency 93 General Practical Rules of the Transparency Road 95 The Challenge of Transparency 97 The Workouts 97 Chapter 8: Internalized Moral Perspective/An Active, Unique GPS System 100 Prisons, Orderly Stages, and Elephants 102 Putting Up Psychological Guardrails 107 The One Thing 109 The Workouts 109 Part III: The Master Class 112 Chapter 9: The Centrality of Conscious Choice 113 Debunking Popeye's Version of Authenticity 114 The Reality of Authenticity 115 Choosing Authentic Action 116 Choose to Experiment 117 Choose to Notice the Novel 119 In Closing 121 The Workouts 122 Chapter 10: How to Read Culture Like an Anthropologist 124 Practical Anthropology Via iPhone 124 Is the Organization Working to Be More Authentic? 127 Figuring Out Fit 128 The Mind-Set of a Corporate Anthropologist 130 The Workouts 135 Chapter 11: How to Make Peace with Paradox 136 Who Are You (Really)? 139 Three Selves That Won't Magically Align 141 Authentic Leadership Is a State of Mind 142 The Workouts 146 Chapter 12: How to Ferociously Seek the Truth (When Everyone Is Framing and Spinning) 148 The Truth Serum Question 149 The Trust Meter Is Always Running 152 In Search of a Virtue Buzz 155 Self-Defining Moments 158 The Workouts 159 Conclusion 160 Acknowledgments 161 About the Author 163 Index 164 End User License Agreement 178

Leverage your authentic self into a valuable leadership strategy

The Art of Authenticity is a guide to becoming a better leader by achieving your best self. All people bring different sides of themselves to various situations. This book will show you how to broaden and deepen your effectiveness by presenting the most appropriate side of yourself. Dr. Karissa Thacker is the management psychologist called on by over two hundred Fortune 500 companies to work with high potential leaders. This book provides you with her expert guidance, based on validated psychological research and artful application of psychological principles to actual business situations, to help you become an authentic leader. You'll learn how to lead through reflection, action, and conscious choice, and how to maintain your guiding principles while effectively leading your team. By replacing habitual reactions with authentic ones, you'll find that you're modeling good behavior and effective decision-making—and that authenticity is contagious. This guide equips you with the tools and skills you need to be the catalyst of positive change your organization needs.

How do you remain authentic while being an effective leader? This book argues that the question isn't a duality. Authenticity is the best way to lead, and the only way to maintain sustainable success as an organization. This insightful guide shows you how to find your authentic self, and leverage that into an effective, executable leadership strategy.

• Become authentic in a way that befits your values
• Show loyalty, honesty, ethics, and consideration
• Maintain authenticity in leadership roles
• Make conscious choices instead of blind reactions

Some are born to lead, other must be taught, but all leaders must work to retain their own values and basic sense of self. A simple pause can mean the difference between a knee-jerk reaction and an authentic decision, and the effects ripple throughout your organization. The Art of Authenticity is your guidebook to finding the true authentic leader within, and leading from the inside out for the long haul.

"The Art of Authenticity is an in-depth leadership development guidebook, designed to help its readers become the very best versions of themselves by replacing habitual reactions with authentic ones. It answers the most asked questions on authentic leadership: What can I do to become genuinely authentic in a way that befits my personal values? How can I be an honest, loyal, ethical, considerate person yet still lead a team or organization ... and maintain authenticity? Based in validated psychological research, The Art of Authenticity will equip its readers with practical real world tools to become a more authentic leader over time via reflection, action, and conscious choice"-- Provided by publisher